The Spiritual Hero’s Journey

” The usual Hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken away, or feels there’s something lacking in the normal experiences available or permitted to the members of his society. This person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life giving elixir “

” That’s the basic motif of the Universal Hero’s Journey and Transformation of Consciousness into the Transcendence “

This is an essential experience of any mystical realisation “

Joseph Campbell

Power of Myth

” To the extent that we are able to become aware of these internal tensions and overcome them, we free our human consciousness which is tied down by these energies and limited because it is tied down, we can then identify our consciousness with the true divine self waiting behind every personal feeling of ego ….. and that is Initiation “